![]() “They were specific spots – peaks or hills. “Let us call them “fog stations”, because there were others – “wind stations” as well,” he writes. “In almost every village, there would be a “weather station”, writes Dimitar Marinov. In olden times, the peasants, whose work was entirely dependent on atmospheric conditions, created a whole system of rules by which they would predict the weather. Fog forebodes bad weather – rain or snow. It is clear when it is white, though it hides everything from view. In folklore terminology, the fog may differ – it is either clear or dark and dense. Lazarus day ritual songs, the young girls who dance and sing for health and fertility are also compared to a dark fog. Behold, it is not a mist, but shepherd Noicho with his grey flock.” In St. Sometimes the mist is compared to a big herd, as carol singers sing: “A dark mist descends over mountains and valleys. At times this mystical phenomenon is charged with positive emotions. “As many mists as you can count on the Danube (or the sea), no less are my heart-aches for you, my love,” – we find lyrics such as these in songs from all folklore regions. “It wasn’t a dense fog, but a fierce dragon – devouring white wheat and white grapes,” goes one folk song. They stop the crops from growing and frequently ruin them and blot out the sun for a long time. This belief is true of dense clouds, which cover fields, valleys and gorges for days and sometimes weeks at a time. In others – she herself is a dragon that devours the wheat and the grapes. In some tales, the fog is guarded by monsters. There is fog on any mountain and when God wills so, the cave opens up, she comes out and falls to the ground or enshrouds the mountain. And when they let her out, she creeps along close to the ground, because she is ashamed of her sins and does not dare rise up to join her brothers. From this dark dungeon she was allowed to come out only if God or the doorkeeper-saint allowed her to. Once upon a time she committed a great sin and God shut her up in a cave and gave the keys to St. Another widespread belief is that she is a young girl, sister to the clouds – young men. In others she is a sorceress, who enchants people and then takes the fruit of their labour in the fields. In fairytales and folk beliefs Fog is always a woman. That is shy the most widespread belief is that fog is “the work of the Devil.” When mists descend, they bring danger to all – to people, to animals, to plants. “To fly above the clear sky, to fly with the dark clouds, to bring clouds and fog, to lock the Black sea,” – a folk song goes. Iliya or Elijah - the thunder, the clouds and the fog. There are even people with the nickname – Fog.Īccording to folklore beliefs, when God was giving out the Earth and the sky, he gave St. Whereas the expression: “His head’s full of fog,” hardly needs any explanation. “Trudging along like fog without wind,” in fact means absolute standstill. To this day we use many expressions that include the word fog, to denote silly or illogical things or a job badly done. “Wind and fog” or in other words a whole lot of rot. But how is the appearance of fog explained in folklore and what proverbs, riddles and songs are there about this natural phenomenon? In this edition of Folk Studio, Albena Bezovska provides the answers to these questions. Fog is most frequent in the autumn, when the air cools more quickly than the ground or the water. ![]() In other words, it is a cloud that starts from the Earth’s surface up and diminishes visibility. When temperatures drop below zero, the mist is made up of ice crystals. According to science books, mist or fog is condensed water vapor, made up of minute droplets in the lowest strata of the atmosphere. ![]() Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.
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